The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-24
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS

The contract is let for the naw
asylum buildings at jamestown.
Frank Shepard mas been apnointaa
postmaster at Ft. Abraham Lincoln
Morton county, vice VIM. Cannon de.
ceased.
The following Dakota pensions have
been issued: Original--G. Bnroar
Waterbury; A. Hecles Miller, Fred
erick.
Chas. Greene and VIM. Hamline
two horse thieves, were sentenced il
the Pierre court TO five years in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary.
Several quarter sections of valuable
improved land in Hamline county be.
longing to J. S. Keator OF Moline and
D. ]. spaulding OF Black River Falls
have been Cancelled and opened for
entry. Mr.. Spaulding was tried IN
1858 at TanKton, in the United
States court, for making fraudulent
entries, and acquitted. He is .
brother-in law ofthe Hon. w. 7. Price
of Wisconsin.
The new artesian we'll at Yankton
struck water bearing rocks at a depth
OF ATS feet. About sixty feet remain
to be drilled before the level of the
heavy flow is struck. The contractors
say they are after the largest flowing
we'll i'll the world.
Sitting Bull showed his grief for his
daughters death by attempting to
kill all his enemies.
G. Wilson and James Reed, resi-
dents of Faulkton, became involvedi in
a quarrel which ends fatally to the
latter.
The North Dakota Loan & Trust
Company, with unlimited capital and
credit, will commence business in
jamestown.
Gov. Church has issued proclama.
tion, forbidding the importation, ex-
cept under certain restrictions, oil
cattle from infected eastern districts.
A quarantine of ninety days is i'm.
posed upon cattle coming from the
following states: Illinois, Pennsyl-
vania, New York, New Jersey, Mary
land, Delaware, District of Columbia,
Virginia, Vermont, Texas and the Do
minion of Canada.
Judge Mcconnell will hold court
at Lisbon the week commencing
July IL.
While boring for water on Robert.
Dams farm, four miles north of Pierre,
a strong pressure OF gas was struck.
Arrangements have been made to test
the quaity and thestrength ofthegas.
The Terxa Hose company, Of Fargo
was awarded the prize at Washington
as the best appearing company in the
annual parade.
Conductor Burns and Brakeman
Collins, on the train from the east,
had fight with gang Of toughs at
Bridgewater, in which three OF the
latter were laid out so effectively that
they could not continue the journey.
They refused to pay their fare, and
the train meh put chem of.
Messrs. Colby and Powers, trustees
for the Yankton insane asylum, say
that there is no truth whatever in tho
charges Of corruption that have been
so circulated for partisan and selfish
motives. An the funds that have
come into their hands have been dis
bursed for the uses of the asylum
maintenance, improvements, etc, and
the use of funds appropriated for ona
purpose to another amounts to
nothing, as III was all necessarily
used for the benefit of the institution.
that have been made, they are con
Ecious Of q faithfHl performances of
duty. They are ready to answer all
charges that may be officially made,
and to convince the public OF the IN
tegrity Of their official conduct.
At the Fourth Tournament of the
North Dakota Fireman ASSOCIATION at
Wapheton, the association officers for
the ensuing year were chosen aafollows:
President, J. G. McKendry; first vice
president, George G. Egger, j jamestown;
second vice president, ~ Mcdonald
Grand Forks; secretary, Frank Gray
Wahpeton; treasurer, G. Nv Pierce
JamestownS executive committee, G.
b. Bristol, Grafton; ] B EB Winters,
Grand Forks, Al. Il. Sunderhouf, Wa
hpeton.
Gov. Church and Judge Spencer are
erecting summer cottages on the shore
of Lake Kampeska.